BREACH OF PROMISE.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14406, 17 May 1917, Page 11

BREACH OF PROMISE.

VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF

(United Press Association.)

Auckland, May 14. In the Supreme Court to-day, lima Eileen Pegler claimed £501 from George Thomas Coxhead, farmer, for breach of promise to marry. The case for the plaintiff wa.s that about a month before the. date of marriage, the defendant broke off the etigagemel^, offering no excuse. Defendant's counsel denied an allegation by opposing counsel that Coxhead's family had been agreeable.-to the engagement only so long" as it proved a bar to his being compelled to go to the war, and that their attitude changed on the introduction of the Military Service Act. Counsel stated that the defendant, finding his affection waning, had taken the course of breaking off the relationship rather than risk marriage. In the circumstances', cotmsel suggested, this was the honourable course. The jury awarded plaintiff £200. Peppermint Cm-o. Never fails. 1/6,, 2/6. For Influenza take Woods' Great